“The fact that Rudy is affecting you and other loyalists this way tells me that for the first time in modern politics, the GOP runs the risk of allowing a true third party threat to take shape in 2008.”
A “threat” that is long overdue in my view. The question that I think is about to be answered for conservatives in very clear and stark terms is whether or not the GOP stands for anything at all other than the election of it’s members to political office regardless of ideology.
Well he did change things, one of the worst Democrats in history was elected with barely 40% of the the PV. (the lowest PV and still elected, in our nation’s history)
The country IS AND HAS changed drastically, but not in the way you think. Conservatives are now a very unpopular minority and the for the Democrats, the election in ‘08 is theirs to lose.
The entire image of Conservatism has become unappealing to the American Public. There are many reasons why, and in order to understand what it is that has made this trend occur, we must first look at what image we are projecting to the public, and why we are being seen in such a bad way.
The idea that we must lose in ‘08 to rebuild strength for the future, is like giving Iraq to Al-Qaeda so they’ll stop attacking our troops in Baghdad.
If people here truly fear Socialism as much as I do, they should not fear Rudy Giuliani, he is no socialist. What they should fear is what damage another Democrat controlled government will do to this country in even one short term. All this in-fighting and stark division that is strangling the GOP will be the main reason the Democrats take this country into Socialism.